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Lot Essay
The tercentenary of the Romanov dynasty was celebrated in 1913. For the occasion, at the request of the Imperial Cabinet, the Fabergé firm produced a large range of jewelry items which were offered as gifts by the Emperor or the Empress to court members and Russian officials. For examples of such items see Snowman, K.A. Fabergé, Trésors retrouvés (Paris, 1993) p. 136.
The design of the jewelry items for this specific event included the date of the tercentenary 1613-1913.
A very small number of rings with such a design, were executed by the Fabergé firm. Six such rings are listed in the ledgers of the Imperial Cabinet and were presented between November 1913 and February 1914 to the engineers Komarskii and Nagorskii, the nobleman A. Bartran, the civil servant A. Melnikov and the officers Kirpichev and Bauchisaritskii.
As explained in a letter sold with this lot, the ring was acquired in August 1918 in Petrograd with the false provenance that it belonged to Rasputin.
We are most grateful to Valentin Skurlov for providing the information on the above lot.
For a similar ring but without the dates, see Copenhagen, The Royal Silver Room, Treasures of Russia, Imperial Gifts, (2002) n. 47, ill. p. 280
The design of the jewelry items for this specific event included the date of the tercentenary 1613-1913.
A very small number of rings with such a design, were executed by the Fabergé firm. Six such rings are listed in the ledgers of the Imperial Cabinet and were presented between November 1913 and February 1914 to the engineers Komarskii and Nagorskii, the nobleman A. Bartran, the civil servant A. Melnikov and the officers Kirpichev and Bauchisaritskii.
As explained in a letter sold with this lot, the ring was acquired in August 1918 in Petrograd with the false provenance that it belonged to Rasputin.
We are most grateful to Valentin Skurlov for providing the information on the above lot.
For a similar ring but without the dates, see Copenhagen, The Royal Silver Room, Treasures of Russia, Imperial Gifts, (2002) n. 47, ill. p. 280